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A browser with a subscription. I have no words. People try to make money out of anything. And they succeed in this. The world is an insane place, really.

• haukilup 2y ago
  Do browsers not make money though? Through leveraging their market share they generate revenue. This is just a different approach. Provide a product (a browser), charge people that want that product.
• kspacewalk2 2y ago
  Looks more like a browser-centred IDE to supplement (not replace) the regular codebase-centred IDE to improve front-end development productivity. That productivity increase is what's very valuable if it actually materializes. The goal obviously isn't to improve your Youtube-viewing experience or whatever, so it's not really comparable to Chrome or Firefox.
• bogwog 2y ago
  I see this more of an IDE/dev tool than a web browser. I'm not a web developer, but I could see why someone would pay for this to get more features than what you get in Chrome/Firefox/Safari.
• Ataraxic 2y ago
  I don't feel that you have a measured take on what is basically browser tooling. It's a customized browser built around web development. Is that _so_ insane? Imagine someone came out with a browser that synced and allowed you to view/test your app in the days of ie6/7/8/9 across all those browsers. Would charging money per month for that be so weird? This isn't for anyone to use as their normal browser.
• didgetmaster 2y ago
  > People try to make money out of anything. So...software developers who mimic the real world. If I walk by a fruit stand, a grocery store, or a booth at a fair selling homemade crafts; I don't expect anything to be free. It is the exception when they are handing out free samples. In the software world, too many expect everything in the store to be free (as in beer). Each software product represents real effort on someone's part, so it is not insane to expect them to want some compensation for that.
  • Xelynega 2y ago
    If I walk by a stand, it cost them something to give me their homemade crafts for free(they have less to give away) With software development the only thing lost with giving it away for free is the opportunity cost that someone might have paid for it. So I don't think physical products and software can be compared like that
    • tigroferoce 2y ago
      Do you think that software comes out of thin air? It takes time and effort to develop and maintain software. The fact that it doesn't cost to reproduce it doesn't mean it doesn't cost to create it in the first place.
      • Xelynega 2y ago
        And it takes time and effort to develop the method for creating the crafts. That doesn't change that they're different in reproducibility...
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• tigroferoce 2y ago
  Absolutely incredible indeed! People asking money in change of their work, how dare they? /s All these years where megacorps gave people stuff for free have tainted the minds of many. If you questioned the subscription model over the perpetual license, that would be somehow acceptable, but assuming everything must be free is just non sense.
• ranger_danger 2y ago
  > People try They are making lots of money with a very useful and nice-looking tool. What's your excuse?